SB2025051443 - Gentoo update for Spidermonkey
Published: May 14, 2025
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 31 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-8900)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly impose security restrictions. A remote attacker can write data to the user's clipboard, bypassing the user prompt, during a certain sequence of navigational events.
2) Improper Restriction of Rendered UI Layers or Frames (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-9391)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an error when exiting fullscreen mode. A user who enables full-screen mode on a specially crafted web page could potentially be prevented from exiting full screen mode. This may allow spoofing of other sites as the address bar is no longer visible.
3) Security features bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-9392)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to an unspecified error. A compromised content process perform arbitrary loading of cross-origin pages.
4) Spoofing attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-9395)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect processing of filenames. A specially crafted filename containing a large number of spaces could obscure the file's extension when displayed in the download dialog.
5) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-9396)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when cloning certain objects. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted website, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
6) Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-9397)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform clickjacking attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to a missing delay in directory upload UI. A remote attacker can trick a user into granting permission via clickjacking.
7) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-9399)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when handling WebTransport. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website and crash the browser.
8) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-9400)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources during JIT compilation. A remote attacker can crash the browser.
9) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-9401)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted website, trick the victim into visiting it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
10) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-9402)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted website, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
11) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-9403)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted website, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
12) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-10458)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to a permission leak via embed or object elements. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted webpage that embeds a trusted website and force the browser to inherit permissions from this trusted website.
13) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-10459)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error in layout with accessibility. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger a use-after-free error and execute arbitrary code on the system.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
14) Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-10460)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to the origin of an external protocol handler prompt can be obscured using a "data:" URL within an iframe. A remote attacker can perform spoofing attack.
15) Universal cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-10461)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data when handling multipart/x-mixed-replace responses. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of any website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
16) Spoofing attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-10462)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to the browser truncates long URLs when displaying origin of permission prompt. A remote attacker can perform a spoofing attack by providing an overly long URL that looks like a trusted domain name.
17) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-10463)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to a cross-origin video frame leak. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website and access video frames cross-origin from a different browser tab.
18) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-10464)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to repeated writes to history interface attributes. A remote attacker can crash the browser.
19) Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-10465)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a clipboard "paste" button persists across different tabs. A remote attacker can trick the victim into pasting content into a malicious tab.
20) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-10466)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources within the application when handling DOM push subscriptions. A remote attacker can send specially crafted data to the browser and crash it.
21) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-10467)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted website, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
22) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-10468)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.
The vulnerability exists due to a race condition in IndexedDB. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website and execute arbitrary code on the system.
23) Improper input validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-43097)
The vulnerability allows a local application to execute arbitrary code.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation within the System component. A local application can execute arbitrary code.
24) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-1931)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error in WebTransportChild. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger a use-after-free in the content process side of a WebTransport connection and execute arbitrary code on the system.
25) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-1932)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
The vulnerability exists due to inconsistent comparison in xslt/txNodeSorter. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted web page, trigger an out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
26) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-1933)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error on 64-bit CPUs, when the JIT compiles WASM i32 return values they can pick up bits from left over memory. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted web page, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
27) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-1934)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources within the application. A remote attacker interrupt the processing of a RegExp bailout and run additional JavaScript, potentially triggering garbage collection when the engine was not expecting it.
28) Improper Restriction of Rendered UI Layers or Frames (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-1935)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform clickjacking attack.
The vulnerability exists due to the way the registerProtocolHandler info-bar handles events. A remote attacker can trick the victim into setting a malicious site as the default handler for a custom URL protocol.
29) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-1936)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of a null-byte character (e.g. %00) in the filename when retrieving local file content packaged in a ZIP archive via jar: URLs. The null and everything after it is ignored when retrieving the content from the archive, but the fake extension after the null is used to determine the type of content. A remote attacker can hide code in a web extension disguised as a safe file, such as an image.
30) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-1937)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted web page, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
31) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-1938)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.